In general, sharks have a reputation as swimming garbage cans that unflinchingly dine on whatever they can fit in their jaws. But in French Polynesia, blacktip reef sharks that frequent places where tourists toss them low-quality scraps are taking a hit to their metabolic and reproductive health, researchers report December 24 in Animal Conservation. Around…
Panama’s president, José Raúl Mulino, has ruled out discussing control over the Panama Canal in a meeting with the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, who is set to visit the Central American country in his first official trip abroad this weekend. Mulino’s comments during a weekly press conference come after Donald Trump threatened to…
I’m 36 and a mother to two beautiful hyperactive boys, six and two. I feel like the most boring fool on earth. I have no friends who I can talk to. Social interaction is limited to small talk day to day – at work, with neighbours etc. I am unable to hold any meaningful conversation…
At least seven members of the figure skating community were among the 60 passengers on the commercial jet that collided with a military helicopter in the skies near Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night. Doug Zeghibe, the chief executive of the Skating Club of Boston, said in a statement that six people affiliated with…
A tiny neutrino detector has found its footing in a fresh setting — at a nuclear reactor. Conventional detectors of the subatomic particles require metric tons of material. But the new detector has a mass of less than 3 kilograms. Think chihuahua. And it successfully detected antineutrinos, the antimatter counterparts of neutrinos, streaming from a nuclear…
The Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group has pushed south from Goma, the border city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that it captured this week, and declared its intention to remain in the city, as fears grow of a major regional war. “We are here in Goma to stay,” Corneille Nangaa, the head of the…